A few weeks ago when I was out cycling with some friends, we saw a few birds who looked like they were sleeping. Someone asked me what they were doing, and I said they were resting or sleeping but I'd ...

Birds possess an incredible ability to sleep while flying. This allows them to undertake epic migrations spanning continents and oceans. They achieve this through unihemispheric sleep, where one brain ...

Long flights often feel tiring for many travellers, yet nature shows a very different story. Several birds stay airborne for weeks or even months, resting in mid-air during long migrations. Their ...

Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...

Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and ...

When birds sleep, what are they dreaming about? Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires have figured out a way to tap into bird dreams. When a bird slumbers, its voice box, called the syrinx, ...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2024 — For more than 20 years, researchers have known that areas of birds’ brains dedicated to singing show neural patterns during sleep akin to the ones they use while awake and ...